My name is Ying Aheng, and I was born in the warring states of the Warring States Period. I originally wanted to guard half an acre of thin farmland and one person, and live out my short life in this troubled world in peace.
But they are all gone.
Ah Yue died in the Qin army's torch, Shi Gan's bones were buried in the pile of corpses in Changping, and Bai Qi clutched the last bottle of wine I gave him when he drank poison...
I watched Ying Zheng unify the six kingdoms, watched Liu Bang kill the snake to revolt, watched the wind of Zhenguan's rule blow through Chang'an, and watched the last trace of blood on Yashan sink to the bottom of the sea.
Over the past two thousand years, I have changed seventy-three names, hid 927 tokens, and drank 3,405 rains in front of my grave.
Some people say that I am a fairy who seeks the secret of immortality; some people call me a monster who wants to eat flesh and drink blood.
But they don't know that I'm just a prisoner trapped in time
Watching my best friend turn to ashes, beauty and white bones, watching the peach tree I planted with my own hands bloom and bear fruit and then wither, watching my own face in the bronze mirror, always stop at twenty years old.
Is this immortality a punishment from heaven, or...
A secret forgotten in the folds of history?
